Surface Pro 11 review: tantalizingly close to the dream
Microsoft’s latest 2-in-1 is all in on Arm, and it’s the closest the company’s come to merging the power of a laptop with the battery life and flexibility of a…
Rocket Report: Falcon 9 is back; Starship could be recovered off Australia
Welcome to Edition 7.05 of the Rocket Report! The Federal Aviation Administration grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket for 15 days after a rare failure of its upper stage earlier this…
Humble Games layoffs leave indie studios in a state of uncertainty
Image: Squid Shock Studios Humble Games “restructured” and reportedly laid off its 36-person team last week. The publisher, which is part of the IGN-owned Humble Bundle, started helping developers release…
AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll
Image: The Verge / Shutterstock Several weeks after being targeted with copyright infringement lawsuits, AI music startups Suno and Udio have now accused the record labels that filed them of…
Pump and Trump
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Inside the MAGA-fueled fever dream of the 2024 Bitcoin Conference. Continue reading…
Nvidia faces two DOJ antitrust probes over market dominance
Cath Virginia / The Verge The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly launched two separate probes into Nvidia regarding antitrust concerns about the computing giant’s AI-focused business dealings. The…
“Screaming Woman” mummy may have died in agony 3,500 years ago, study finds
Enlarge / CT scans and other techniques allowed scientists to “virtually dissect” this 3,500-year-old “Screaming Woman” mummy. (credit: Sahar Saleem/CC BY) There have been a handful of ancient Egyptian mummies…
There are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of one
Enlarge / Astroscale’s ADRAS-J spacecraft captured these views of the H-IIA rocket upper stage on July 15. (credit: Astroscale) There are more than 2,000 mostly intact dead rockets circling the…
NASA says it is “evaluating all options” for the safe return of Starliner crew
Enlarge / Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is seen docked at the International Space Station on June 13. (credit: NASA) It has now been eight weeks since Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched into…
Troubling bird flu study suggests human cases are going undetected
Enlarge (credit: Tony C. French/Getty) A small study in Texas suggests that human bird flu cases are being missed on dairy farms where the H5N1 virus has taken off in…